A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The sign brings customers.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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I bend but do not break.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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